Prof. Dr. Stefan Sauer

Database and Information Systems
Member - Research Associate - Senior Researcher
Software Innovation Campus Paderborn (SICP)
Manager - Research Associate - Managing Director, R&D Manager Software Engineering
on appointment
33102 Paderborn
- Research Interests
Research Topics
- Software processes and development methods, situational methods, standards such as RUP, V Model XT, CMMI
- Software and system modeling, model-based and model-driven software development
- Modeling languages for software and systems engineering, e.g. UML, SysML, BPMN etc.; design of domain-specific languages (DSL)
- Method engineering, systematic development of situational model-based software engineering methods, method architecture, use of metamodeling and software process modeling, standards such as OMG SPEM, ISO 24744
- Human-centered software engineering, development methods for interactive and multimedia systems, integration of software engineering and human-computer interaction (HCI)
- Requirements engineering, requirements specification, requirements management, functional and non-functional (quality) requirements
- Software modernization, software-lifecycle management, combination of reverse- and roundtrip engineering methods, modeling, and testing
- Continuous software quality management, software testing and quality assurance, constructive and analytical methods for software quality, quality gates

Miscellaneous |
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Since 06/2016 |
Managing Director & R&D Manager, SICP - Software Innovation Campus Paderborn, Paderborn University Managing Director of Software Innovation Lab (SI-Lab) Center of Competence Manager for Software Engineering |
07/2005 - 12/2017 |
Managing Director & Senior Researcher of s-lab - Software Quality Lab, Paderborn University Geschäftsführer & Senior Researcher s-lab - Software Quality Lab |
01/2011 |
Doctoral Degree in Computer Science (Dr. rer. nat.), Paderborn University Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Mathematics Title of Thesis: Systematic Development of Model-based Software Engineering Methods |
10/1997 - 06/2005 |
Research Associate in the Database and Information Systems Group, Paderborn University Fakultät für Elektrotechnik, Informatik und Mathematik (EIM) Fachbereich 17 Mathematik/Informatik |
10/1990 - 09/1997 |
Student of Informatics, University of Oldenburg Degree: Diplom-Informatiker Topic of Thesis: Event Processing in Active Mobile Database Systems Using Broadcasting Mechanisms |
08/1994 - 08/1995 |
Visiting Scholar, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Computer Science Department, Center for Neural Engineering and Brain Simulation Laboratory (Dr. Michael A. Arbib) |
Since 06/2016 |
Managing Director & R&D Manager, SICP - Software Innovation Campus Paderborn, Paderborn University Managing Director of Software Innovation Lab (SI-Lab) Center of Competence Manager for Software Engineering |
07/2005 - 12/2017 |
Managing Director & Senior Researcher of s-lab - Software Quality Lab, Paderborn University Geschäftsführer & Senior Researcher s-lab - Software Quality Lab |
01/2011 |
Doctoral Degree in Computer Science (Dr. rer. nat.), Paderborn University Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Mathematics Title of Thesis: Systematic Development of Model-based Software Engineering Methods |
10/1997 - 06/2005 |
Research Associate in the Database and Information Systems Group, Paderborn University Fakultät für Elektrotechnik, Informatik und Mathematik (EIM) Fachbereich 17 Mathematik/Informatik |
10/1990 - 09/1997 |
Student of Informatics, University of Oldenburg Degree: Diplom-Informatiker Topic of Thesis: Event Processing in Active Mobile Database Systems Using Broadcasting Mechanisms |
08/1994 - 08/1995 |
Visiting Scholar, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Computer Science Department, Center for Neural Engineering and Brain Simulation Laboratory (Dr. Michael A. Arbib) |